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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -Wmissing-prototypes (was: make foo() static)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:17:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701071735.GA17047@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4869D1F3.3030804@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:42:59AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch makes the needlessly global kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() static.
> 
> Hmm, maybe we should build the kernel with -Wmissing-prototypes?
> That should make gcc print a warning for that ...

I started 3 or 4 years ago cleaning up the kernel for 
-Wmissing-prototypes and I'm still working on it.

Many parts of the kernel now compile cleanly or nearly cleanly, but 
looking at e.g. arch/ I know what kind of answers I would get if 
suggesting adding -Wmissing-prototypes today...

> cheers,
>   Gerd

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-30 22:19 [2.6 patch] make kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() static Adrian Bunk
2008-07-01  6:42 ` -Wmissing-prototypes (was: make foo() static) Gerd Hoffmann
2008-07-01  7:17   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2008-07-05 11:13 ` [2.6 patch] make kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() static Avi Kivity

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